T Quotes
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“The day-to-day horror of writing gave me a notion of tournament time. Writing novels is tedious. When will this book be finished, when will it reveal its bright and shining true self? it takes freakin’ years. At the poker table, you’re only playing a fraction of the hands, waiting for your shot. If you keep your wits, can keep from flying apart while those around you are self-destructing, devouring each other, you’re halfway there. … Let them flame out while you develop a new relationship with time, and they drift away from the table. 86-7
Coach Helen’s mantra: It’s OK to be scared, but don’t play scared. 90
[During a young adult trip to Los Vegas] I was contemplating the nickel in my hand. Before we pushed open the glass doors, what the heck, I dropped it into a one-armed bandit and won two dollars.
In a dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More. Remembering it now, I hear a sizzling sound, like meat being thrown into a hot skillet. I didn't do risk, generally. So I thought. But I see now I'd been testing the House Rules the last few years. I'd always been a goody-goody. Study hard, obey your parents, hut-hut-hut through the training exercises of Decent Society. Then in college, now that no one was around, I started to push the boundaries, a little more each semester. I was an empty seat in lecture halls, slept late in a depressive funk, handed in term papers later and later to see how much I could get away with before the House swatted me down.
Push it some more. We go to casinos to tell the everyday world that we will not submit. There are rules and codes and institutions, yes, but for a few hours in this temple of pure chaos, of random cards and inscrutable dice, we are in control of our fates. My little gambles were a way of pretending that no one was the boss of me. …
The nickels poured into the basin, sweet music. If it worked once, it will work again.
We hit the street. 106-8
[Matt Matros, 3x bracelet winner; wrote The Making of a Poker Player]: “One way or another you’re going to have a read, and you’re going to do something that you didn’t expect you were going to do before, right or wrong. Obviously it’s better if you’re right, but even if you’re wrong, it can be really satisfying to just have a read, a feeling, and go with it. Your gut.”
I could play it safe, or I could really play. 180
Early on, you wanted to stay cool and keep out of expensive confrontations, but you also needed to feed the stack. The stack is hungry. 187
The awful knowledge that you did what you set out to do, and you would never, ever top it. It was gone the instant you put your hands on it. It was gambling. 224”
Source: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
“The day was cold, and every time the little transparent fans of water swept in and drew back, the wet sand mirrored a clear sky and the sun on its way down.”
Source: Stolen Pleasures: Selected Stories of Gina Berriault
“The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.”
“The day was gray, the color of Europe.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems to go wrong and one finds oneself engaged in a perpetual and infuriating strife with inanimate objects. How truly fiendish the sub-human world can be on these occasions! How every atom, every cell, every molecule, seems to be leagued in a maddening conspiracy against the unfortunate being who has incurred its obscure displeasure!”
Source: Asylum Piece
“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.”
Source: Master Humphrey's Clock
“The day was now extremely bright as the diagonal rays of the sun reflected from the film of unmelted snow that still stuck to the ground.”
Source: Shelley's Heart
“The day was on its way to being uneventful. That should have been her first warning. The world has a tendency to trick people. It likes to make a day feel as bright and lazy as sun-warmed honey dripping down a jar as it waits until your guard is down...
And that's when it strikes.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“The day was one of those early Spring days that for some mysterious reason, very hard to analyse, are felt to be ill-omened and unpleasant. Something was certainly wrong with this day! All animal nerves felt it. All human nerves felt it. All living things were irritable, restless, disturbed; sick without being sick; sad without being sad; annoyed without any apparent cause for annoyance!”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“The day was perfect. Hot, yes, but with a refreshing zephyr sidling in from the west. The lagoon was flecked with small islands, and beyond lay the more ominous mainland, the papal army camped somewhere on it. But here, on this beautiful islet far from our usual universe, a warrior pope seemed a figment.”
Source: The Virgins of Venice
“The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.”
Source: The Fountain Overflows
“The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.”
Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
“The day was warm; but the fact that the sky was covered with a filmy veil of grey clouds gave to the vast plain before him the appearance of a landscape whose dominant characteristic consisted in a patient effacement of all emphatic or outstanding qualities. The green of the meadows was a shy, watery green. The verdure of the elm trees was a sombre, blackish monotony. The yellow of the stubble land was a whitish-yellow, pallid and lustreless.”
Source: Wolf Solent
“The day was warming fast, the air weighted with the sweetness of clover and grass and pasture scents. A dunnock fluted notes from its perch in an ancient hedge, while robins called from the treetops.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“The day we accept ourselves is the day of our resurrection.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The day we become silent about the things that matter is the moment our lives begin to end.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")”
“The day we decide to protect the birds will be the day we decide to protect ourselves.”
“The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness. ("The unbearable heaviness of being" )”
“The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”
“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.”
Source: Dear Mr. Knightley
“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“The day we get comfortable with our lives is the day we sacrifice adventure.”
“The day we harnessed electron, was the beginning of artificial intelligence.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.”
“The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey
Begins.”
“The day we master ourselves to think beyond the thinking of our mind is the day we learn about our limited behaviors, outcomes, and understanding. And when we learn about our limitations we start to go beyond limitations.”
“The day we overcome our fear and stand united, we can do something unimaginably beautiful”
Source: Life of a Sunset Kid
“The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.”
Source: The Clairvoyance Clock
“The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.”
“The day we recognize we must let go and drop questionable priorities in life, we understand we must accept to follow our inner compass and find harmony with ourselves. Through the flow between buoyancy and acceptance, we can reach a state of awakening and enlightenment. (“A handful of dust”)”
“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
“The day we run out of questions, will be the day we run out of life.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”
“The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.”
“The day we start thinking that we are perfect and cannot do anything wrong is the day we move away from reality to delusion.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“The day we stop acquiring knowledge, convinced we know it all, is when we become redundant and obsolete”
“The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.”
“The day we stop dreaming is the day we stop living”
Source: I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
“The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”
“The day we stop learning is the day we die.”
“The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.”
“The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.”
“The day we stop showing compassion for our enemy, Nathan-- --is the day we become the enemy.”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #310
“The day we were born, we were all God's children.”
“The day went by, still and silent but for the muted calling of the sea-birds, and the sad little pipe of the ringed plover on the shingle.”
“The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.”
“The day when a higher number of people speak lies in this world is Valentine's day
The day when a higher number of people do trust in lies in this world is Valentine's day”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.”